OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
Steven Harvey, Carol and Kynea Primes
M. Rodenkirch, Carol and Kynea Prime Search
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Near-Square Prime
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Integer Sequence Primes
MATHEMATICA
lst={}; Do[p=(2^n-1)^2-2; If[PrimeQ[p], AppendTo[lst, n]], {n, 7!}]; lst (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jan 27 2009 *)
PROG
(PARI) is(n)=ispseudoprime((2^n - 1)^2 - 2) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Feb 19 2016
KEYWORD
nonn,hard
AUTHOR
Eric W. Weisstein, Jan 17 2004
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Pab Ter (pabrlos(AT)yahoo.com), May 25 2004
a(36)=175749 from Cletus Emmanuel (cemmanu(AT)yahoo.com), Oct 08 2004
a(37)=185580 from Cletus Emmanuel (cemmanu(AT)yahoo.com), Nov 03 2004
Edited by Ray Chandler, Nov 15 2004
a(38)=226749 from Steven Harvey, Jan 11 2005 and subsequently confirmed as next term
a(39) from Eric W. Weisstein, Mar 31 2006
a(40) = 253987 from Cletus Emmanuel (cemmanu(AT)yahoo.com), May 03 2007
a(41) = 520363 from Eric W. Weisstein, Jun 08 2016 (computed by Mark Rodenkirch)
a(42) = 653490 from Eric W. Weisstein, Jun 15 2016 (computed by Mark Rodenkirch)
a(43) = 688042 from Mark Rodenkirch, Jul 05 2016
a(44) = 695631 from Mark Rodenkirch, Jul 16 2016
STATUS
approved